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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Situational variables"”.
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A study of situational variables in an organizational marketing scenario
This study examined whether situational variables influence members of the buying center when deriving an evoked set in an organizational buying scenario. Buyclass, risk, and power were the focus of the study. This study examined the process organizations go through when deriving evoked sets and …
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Video-Based Situational Judgment Test Characteristics: Multidimensionality at the Item Level and Impact of Situational Variables
… or dimension being measured by a video-based situational judgment test (VBSJT). Appropriate exertion of control was specifically explored in relation to a VBSJT test designed for entry-level selection of law enforcement officers. Ratings from ten law enforcement experts were utilized to …
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A national study of the relationship of demographic, psychological, and situational variables to job involvement of student affairs professionals in community and junior colleges
… the influence of demographic, psychological, and situational variables on the job involvement, or psychological identification with work, of student affairs professionals in community and junior colleges in the United States. Job involvement is related to the quality of life for individuals and …
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Personality characteristics, attitudes and perceptions of rape among incarcerated sex offenders
This relationships among dispositional variables, situational variables and rape supportiveness was examined in a sample of incarcerated sex offenders. Previous surveys have shown that dispositional variables are determinants of sexual aggression. Research has also shown that situational variables, …
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Women's and men's achievement striving in an academic environment : a qualitative study
… about achievement were often associated with situational variables. These situational variables (e.g., different contexts, importance of particular goals, relationship factors, type of preferred competition) had a mediating effect on whether or not participants competed or how they chose to …
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Waiting for the right place and right time: belief content correlates of academic procrastination
… a conditional model of dispositional and situational variables to predict academic procrastination and academic achievement. Traditional predictive models focus on personality traits, specifically conscientiousness and neuroticism. The dispositional variables of interest in the present …
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A model of consumer preference for interpersonal information search
… search. A model offering individual and situational predictors of consumer preference was tested using structural equation modeling. The individual variables included people's susceptibility to social influence, their need for cognition, and their self-confidence. The situational …
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An assessment of teachers' attitudes toward the 45-15 year-round school concept
… evidence related to: How selected personal and situational variables relate to teachers' attitudes toward year-round education and how can variations in those attitudes be measured. An assessment instrument, the Teacher Attitude Inventory On Year-Round Education, was designed to determine the …
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Assessing Undergraduate Business Students' Oral Communication Apprehension: Implications of Stakes and Situations
… whether OCA is significantly sensitive to situational variables and therefore operates as a state. If so, acquiring business students' situational OCA may benefit educators as complimentary data to PRCA-24 assessments. This study also examines business and non-business undergraduates' …
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The determinants of late life exercise in women over age 70
… The composite model included ten personal and situational attributes as well as five cognitive beliefs about physical activity adapted from Social Cognitive Theory and a belief about personal control over one's health from Health Locus of Control Theory. A city-wide sample of 327 Vancouver …
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The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers
… between work stressors, three moderator variables, and a variety of affective, behavioural and health outcomes. More specifically, it was hypothesized that the work stressors would be significantly associated with adverse affective, behavioural and health outcomes. Furthermore, it was …
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Control, introversion, and social support: a model of loneliness in Alzheimer's caregivers
… test the association between characterological variables (introversion and control), situational variables (social support), demographics (income), and self-reported loneliness in a statewide mail survey of 190 caregivers. Results indicated that introversion, control, social support, and income …
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Analisi perilaku konsumen terhadap keputusan pembelian sepatu merek Converse: Studi pada konsumen sepatu merek Converse di Kota Malang
… to determine the effect of consumer behavior on situational factors, knowledge and personality of the product purchase decisions Converse brand shoes unfortunate town. The analytical method used is descriptive analysis and statistical methods that use multiple linear regression analysis, a …
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A case study-based investigation into the factors that influence the physical and technical interactions on match performance within an under 18's academy football team.
… previous studies analysing the impact of situational variables such as playing position and match location in relation to youth are missing. The aim of this study was to investigate how Physical and Technical match performance indicators are influenced over time periods, by the influence …
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A penological approach to the social construct of sexuality
… the influence of several sociodemographic and situational variables on the change in sexual orientation was examined. The only statistically significant variable associated with a change in sexual orientation was engaging in homosexual behavior. Inmates were over 52 times more likely to change …
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Multimethod analysis of interest
… Vocational trait interest predicted situational variables such as state interest, task engagement, and task persistence. These findings support the idea that the two distinct literatures on interest psychology are studying the same construct.
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Reform of nursing education in Hong Kong : a study of nurse leadership and policy development
… that influence leadership effectiveness: situational variables, leader power base, leaders' attributes and style, and leaders' reciprocal relationships with followers. Data analysis indicated that nursing education reform could be conceptualised as an evolution process. Nurse leaders' …
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The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Auditor Judgment
… factor that may interact with pressure and other situational variables to influence auditors’ judgments and decisions. This study seeks to identify emotional intelligence (EI) as a key factor in dealing with emotions and pressures in an audit context. In this paper, I focus on how EI may influence …
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Exploring the situational context of criminal assaults and batteries
… significance of examining crime events and the situational context of crime. This paper extends that research by exploring the physical and social aspects of assaults. Guided by research on masculinity, status threats, and character contests, this study uses police data to examine the …
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Normal Violence: The Case of Fighting on a College Campus
… and multivariate analyses, we examined several variables that may explain why the witnesses' psychological reactions varied. These included the gender and age of the witnesses, the extent of physical injury to the fighters, as well as several situational variables such as the time and place of …
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